Scientists have built a computer out of water droplets, but why? It's not the first computer we've seen built with analog materials, and obviously runs at a tiny fraction of an electronic circuit's ...

When you think about the materials that make up a computer, water is probably not something that comes to mind. However, in Manu Prakash’s lab at Stanford, things are quite different. Driven by his ...

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Though its processing speed is significantly slower than that of a conventional electronic computer, this computer, which works by moving water droplets, can theoretically perform the same operations.